| Despite its grand name, the hotel is small and somewhat seedy. |
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| He thinks everything the government does is part of some grand conspiracy. |
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| Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union and has a grand total of 51 representatives in the European Parliament. |
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| The grand finale experiment, performed ex vivo with cells from two aviremic patients, addresses this question. |
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| A grand strategic bargain between Russia and the US could be in the wind, after years of deteriorating relations. |
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| Despite its grand ambitions toward the south, it had not built its railway network in that direction, and communications were poor. |
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| His grand battery was as badly provided with cannon as his little battery, for not a single gun was mounted on either. |
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| By then his health was failing, but he nevertheless undertook a grand tour of Europe, and was welcomed and celebrated wherever he went. |
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| As early as 1883, Sullivan had been under pressure from the musical establishment to write a grand opera. |
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| During 1942, Allied officials debated on the appropriate grand strategy to pursue. |
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| The grand jury has handed down indictments against several mobsters. |
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| The work's seven scenes celebrate English history and culture, with the Victorian period as the grand finale. |
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| Another grand form of portrait sculpture is the equestrian statue of a rider on horse, which has become rare in recent decades. |
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| The years of revolution from 1848 to 1849 had been a grand experience for both Marx and Engels. |
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| They qualified for the grand final for the first time in 2016 when they finished in 25th place. |
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| These buildings are all situated at Burghausen's grand central square Stadtplatz. |
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| Indeed, for much of its life it has been dominated by a grand coalition of the European People's Party and the Party of European Socialists. |
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| The opening was celebrated with a grand dinner attended by 2000 guests, and the Laing Art Gallery has a painting of this event. |
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| It is a common misconception that the term 'cathedral' may be applied to any particularly large or grand church. |
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| Such a church is grand because it is a cathedral, rather than it being designated a cathedral because of its grandeur. |
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| The inner bark of the grand fir was used by some Plateau Indian tribes for treating colds and fever. |
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| Beauty pageants are supposed to be Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly. |
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| Jack Nicklaus won three Open Championships, the first at Muirfield in 1966, which completed the first of his three career grand slams. |
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| We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful. |
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| The Edwardian town and castle acted as the administrative centre of north Wales and as a result the defences were built on a grand scale. |
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| The tower contained grand lodgings, and was probably built for Sir Otton de Grandson, the first justiciar of Wales. |
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| I send the grand finale, and so exit the Lady of the Lake from the head she has tormented for six months. |
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| If a word is of Persian or Arabic origin, the level of speech is considered to be more formal and grand. |
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| They are grand buildings, especially the exterior of the former magistrates' court, which features a gothic architecture style of decoration. |
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| The grand jury system, which still exists in the United States, has been abolished in England and Wales. |
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| In the grand final at the RDS in Dublin the Ospreys shocked Leinster, winning the title with their first win in Dublin in five years. |
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| Like its counterpart on the opposite coast to the East, there is a grand variety of shellfish in this region. |
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| The sanctioning body hosts its annual grand championships at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee each Labor Day Weekend. |
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| This week on The Amazing Prize Giveaway Show, the grand prize is 10,000 bog rolls! |
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| It may be an agglomeration of the Latin grandis piscis or French grand poisson, both meaning big fish. |
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| Within ten years, grand touring cars found success penetrating the new American personal luxury car market. |
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| Motorsports was important in the evolution of the grand touring concept, and grand touring entries are important in endurance sports car racing. |
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| The Mille Miglia permitted the birth of GT, or grand touring cars, which are now sold all over the world. |
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| This grand approach was constructed by Benito Mussolini after the conclusion of the Lateran Treaty. |
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| Docks, breakwaters and other harbour works were built by hand, often in a grand scale. |
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| James Square, London, on 10 July 1920, aged 79, and he was given a grand national funeral at Westminster Abbey. |
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| La Pallice, the grand port maritime de La Rochelle is the commercial, deep water port of La Rochelle. |
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| In the 2005, there was a grand anniversary meeting, to mark the centenary, with more than 500 attendees. |
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| Former undergraduates of the university have won a grand total of 61 Nobel prizes, 13 more than the undergraduates of any other university. |
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| I mean, it's a bit of a waste of money paying me eighteen grand to run errands, isn't it? Come on. I'm supposed to be the brains of this outfit. |
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| Many grand houses and public buildings, such as the National Gallery, are constructed from Portland stone. |
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| Reprinting ensured that historians remained objective, and that the grand pirate narratives remained intact. |
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| In about 1680, he rebuilt his ancestral seat of Stowe House in Cornwall in a grand style befitting his new noble status. |
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| It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. |
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| The studio officially opened for business on August 25, and a grand opening party was held the following day. |
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| The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration? |
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| As with the model of the solar system in the Almagest, Ptolemy put all this information into a grand scheme. |
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| On the west side, the chapel has a grand Victorian door and staircase, used on ceremonial occasions. |
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| In the Lower Ward, the chapel was enlarged and remodelled with grand buildings for the canons built alongside. |
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| George's previous houses, Carlton House and the Brighton Pavilion were too small for grand court events, even after expensive extensions. |
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| Anthony Salvin rebuilt Wyatville's grand staircase, with Edward Blore constructing a new private chapel within the State Apartments. |
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| Some grand castles had long winding approaches intended to impress and dominate their landscape. |
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| Each family's palazzo was a hive that contained all the family members, though it might not always show a grand architectural public front. |
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| In grand houses, an entrance hall led to steps up to a piano nobile or mezzanine floor where the main reception rooms were. |
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| The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. |
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| Adolf Hitler intended to turn Berlin into the capital of Europe, more grand than Rome or Paris. |
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| The meal is often comparable to a less grand version of a traditional Christmas dinner. |
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| The Flemish set with the Story of Abraham still at Hampton Court Palace is one grand set from late in his reign. |
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| He staged a grand adventus in the city, and was met with popular jubilation. |
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| Many were painted elsewhere in Perthshire, near Dunkeld and Birnam, where Millais rented grand houses each autumn to hunt and fish. |
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| I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. |
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| Netting a quick ten grand on a day trade of 1750 shares, he paid off his credit-card debts and gave his wife a ring with five diamonds. |
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| The second formal method of charging someone with a crime is by information. Informations are filed by prosecutors without grand jury review. |
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| He has won 18 grand slam titles and 6 world tour finals, the most for any male player. |
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| So free is Christ's dilection, that the grand condition of our felicity is our belief. |
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| Before 2007, among grand slam tournaments, Wimbledon and the French Open awarded more prize money in men's events than in women's events. |
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| Jack Crawford, Lew Hoad, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams won the first three events, but lost the last grand slam tournament. |
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| The tape was the piece of evidence that assured Cohle that this grand conspiracy wasn't all in his head. |
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| The grand coalition decided to settle the 1956 petitions by setting binding deadlines for the required referendums. |
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| Two years later, the first step towards a change of government was initiated when a grand commission was established. |
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| Though successful in their outcome, the expeditions to the Caribbean, conducted on a grand scale, led to devastating losses from disease. |
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| This is usually held in a grand municipally owned location in the city centre. |
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| Full voting results are withheld until after the grand final, whereupon they are published on the EBU's website. |
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| In the 2005 elections, Angela Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany as the leader of a grand coalition. |
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| These states consisted of kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies, principalities, free Hanseatic cities and one imperial territory. |
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| All to be done and dusted before the National Honey Show. After this the grand clear up. |
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| The grand touring definition implies material differences in performance at speed, comfort, and amenities between elite automobiles and those of ordinary motorists. |
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| In winter, too, There is grand aeolism upon my hills, When the blast sweeps the pine-boughs, and wails forth In long-drawn sobs and shrieking semitones. |
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| Unfortunately, the people who are voting democrat do not care about the constitution in any area where it limits their grand vision of Ameritopia. |
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| Lively show tunes being belted out by the pianist on the grand piano. |
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| Do you think he'll be able to cough up the three grand by Tuesday? |
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| And the cause why this service is called grand serjeanty is, for that it is a greater and more worthy service than the service in the tenure of escuage. |
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| You get scared, sittin' home, waitin', and they're in France and everywheres, learnin' French and everything, and meetin' grand people and havin' a fuss made over 'em. |
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| His simple vision has transformed into something far more grand. |
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| The two DJs who I'd seen at that Latics club event turned out to be real grand fromages of the scene, movers, shakers, opinion formers, revered figures. |
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| While in some sense an early form of jury came to be part of the procedure in the shire courts, the development of the common law grand jury and petty jury came later. |
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| Commanders were distinguished by the number of horsetails carried before them. The sultan had seven, the grand vizier five, and the pashas three, two, or one. |
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| We had trouble getting that grand piano up the stairs, I can tell you! |
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| Despite these reforms it is uncertain if Henry had a grand vision for his new legal system and the reforms seem to have proceeded in a steady, pragmatic fashion. |
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| Porcelain inlaying is a grand thing in certain cases, and it is much to be regretted that the present existing circumstances do not warrant its being used more extensively. |
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| Following the ceremony, there was a grand banquet in Westminster Hall. |
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| But it would certainly put her in the way of a grand marriage. |
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| The Victorians produced his plays as lavish spectacles on a grand scale. |
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| The administrative and financial business carried by county grand juries and county at large presentment sessions were transferred to the new councils. |
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| Peter's Church at York as the Liberty of Ripon and it was during this time that a grand Collegiate Church was built on top of the ruins of Wilfrid's building. |
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| In the grand Halleluja my soul almost ascended from my body. |
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| Similarly, if Persian or Arabic grammar constructs, such as the izafat, are used in Urdu, the level of speech is also considered more formal and grand. |
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| This is reflected in its central location within the King's Building on the first floor above the Great Hall, accessible via a grand double staircase from the foyer. |
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| It was formerly a Victorian grand hotel and lately government offices. |
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| In these temple fronts with columns and a pediment are very common for the main entrance of grand buildings, but often flanked by large wings or set in courtyards. |
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| A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. |
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| The grand fountains and cascades were opened, again in the presence of the Queen, who got wet when a gust of wind swept mists of spray over the royal carriage. |
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| From Geoffrey's grand description of Caerleon, Camelot gains its impressive architecture, its many churches and the chivalry and courtesy of its inhabitants. |
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| Holbein applied this clean, craftsmanlike technique both to miniature portraits, such as that of Jane Small, and to grand portraits, such as that of Christina of Denmark. |
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| Often an artifice is employed to effect the passage from one state to another such as an unexpected inheritance, a miraculous gift, grand reunions, etc. |
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| After the end of the grand construction phase of Stonehenge, around 2400 B.C., the monument was altered, but the era of megamonument building was over. |
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| The Commonwealth Games always starts with a grand opening ceremony. |
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| Televised in the United States by Showtime, Hamed was carried to the ring on a grand throne, something which Hamed later stated he was not comfortable with. |
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| The same applies for the final, with two rehearsals on the Friday and the third on Saturday afternoon before the live transmission of the grand final on Saturday evening. |
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| In 2013, a grand coalition was established in a Third Merkel cabinet. |
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| William Pitt The Elder, who entered the cabinet in 1756, had a grand vision for the war that made it entirely different from previous wars with France. |
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| As prime minister, Pitt committed Britain to a grand strategy of seizing the entire French Empire, especially its possessions in North America and India. |
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| The Volta Prize was conceived by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801, and named in honor of Alessandro Volta, with Bell receiving the third grand prize in its history. |
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| I myself will make an attempt to produce a grand opera of this new school. |
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| Carte was building a new theatre to present Sullivan's forthcoming grand opera, and Sullivan sided with Carte, going so far as to testify erroneously as to certain old debts. |
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| In central Europe, golden eagles today occur almost exclusively in the grand mountain ranges, such as Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians and the Caucasus. |
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| There are two varieties, the taller coast grand fir, found west of the Cascade Mountains, and the shorter interior grand fir, found east of the Cascades. |
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| The grand fir was first described by Scottish botanical explorer David Douglas, who in 1831 collected specimens of the tree along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. |
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| One prominent settler in PEI was John MacDonald of Glenaladale, who conceived the idea of sending Gaels to Nova Scotia on a grand scale after Culloden. |
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| Approaching Churton and Aldford, the river crosses entirely into England, and passes the grand country house of Eaton Hall, seat of the Duke of Westminster. |
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| Beginning in 1300, Edward accompanied his father on campaigns to pacify Scotland, and in 1306 he was knighted in a grand ceremony at Westminster Abbey. |
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| Hugh Despenser the Younger lived and ruled in grand style, playing a leading role in Edward's government, and executing policy through a wide network of family retainers. |
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| Also, all grand champion solo winners at each sanctioned event earn the opportunity to compete in October for a chance to dance on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. |
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| Around 1520 Sweden was out of the Middle Ages and united under King Gustav Vasa, who immediately initiated grand mansions, castles and fortresses to be built. |
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| May's grand piano was smashed when he failed to prevent his lorry from rolling backwards, although the production crew had already damaged it while positioning it. |
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| Both, they claim, were British spies, sent into Central Asia as part of a grand design for paramountcy there at the expense of Russia, whose influence they aimed to destroy. |
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| This work attempts to reconcile the contradictory tales of the poets and provides a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. |
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| Mother and son attended a public parade through London and a grand service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral on 27 February 1872, and republican feeling subsided. |
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